This series contains all local statutory rules and orders and statutory instruments which have been registered since 1922, apart from some omissions which apparently have been destroyed. For the years 1922-1960 the series includes numerical lists indicating the individual numbers of those local orders and instruments which have survived. Many pieces contain maps.

Date:

1922-2006

Arrangement:

The copies are generally arranged in chronological order, and numerically within each year.

The entire series is preserved, under the provisions of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946.

Accruals:

Series is accruing

Publication note:

Local statutory instruments made under the Harbour Act 1964, the Pilotage Act 1987, the Water Act 1989, the Ports Act 1991, the Water Industry Act , the Water Resources Act, the Statutory Water Companies Act, the Land Drainage Act and the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 are published in the annual editions of Statutory Instruments published by HMSO.

Administrative / biographical background:

Once registration became compulsory under the Rules Publication Act 1893, statutory rules and orders and statutory instruments were classified as general or local: the former were required by the legislation to be published, but the local rules, orders and instruments were not. A central set of local rules, orders and instruments was maintained from 1922 by central government, within the custody of various of the legal departments at different periods. Following the privatisation of the printing and publication activities of the HMSO Agency on 30 September 1996 the policy work of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, including the maintenance of the central set of local instruments, was absorbed in to the Cabinet Office as a division within the Machinery of Government and Standards Group.